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NB: I know one suboptimal solution to this problem, which I give at the end. I'm looking for a better one. Also, I was not able to solve this problem with the solutions give in Backquote in string template?.

For example, this assignment is no problem:

example::message = "foo`bar is set to `1`"; (* no problem *)

But if one uses this message in a Message expression, then two messages appear, and the second one is malformed:

foo`bar = 3;
Message[example::message, foo`bar]

StringForm::sfq: Unmatched backquote in foo`bar is set to `1`. >>
example::message: foo`bar is set to `1`

One solution is to make a slot for the backquote, and include "`" among the message parameters:

example::message = "foo`1`bar is set to `2`";
Message[example::message, "`", foo`bar]

example::message: foo`bar is set to 3

This solution, however, is suboptimal, because it requires users to remember to include the otherwise meaningless "`" among the message parameters.

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From the StringForm docs use "`.`":

m::a = "`1` `.` `2`";
Message[m::a, "a", "b"]

m::a: a ` b
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  • $\begingroup$ wonder why StringTemplate doesn't use this convention. $\endgroup$
    – george2079
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 22:05
  • $\begingroup$ @george2079 Message uses StringForm which is just a formatting head. But it's a much more restricted system. In StringTemplate you could match that "." to "." in your template driver so it introduces ambiguity. $\endgroup$
    – b3m2a1
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 22:07

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